Effects of industrial plantations on ecosystem services and livelihoods: Perspectives of rural communities in China

D'amato, Dalia; Rekola, Mika; Wan, Minli; Cai, Dinglin; Toppinen, Anne

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.01.044

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“…Particular emphasis should be placed in further defining the idea of business dependency both conceptually and empirically [36]. This currently overlooked concept is a key to highlighting the relevance of natural systems and their services for businesses and society [40]. In our study, expert views have provided some insights for forest companies' future strategies towards sustainability, but the fundamental question on how business can truly take ecological limits and stakeholder preferences into account remains open.…”

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“…This finding is somewhat in line with previous literature. For instance, Gordon et al [36] and D'Amato et al [37,40] investigated stakeholder perceptions of forest companies' impacts on the natural environment in Australia and China, respectively. In addition, our interviewees' perceptions of company impacts are in line with some existing ecological findings.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Future research should focus on a broader comparative analysis of companies' internal versus external stakeholder perceptions on this topic in addition to a few existing studies from China or Australia [37,40]. In addition, more quantitative-oriented ecological research is needed to further investigate dependencies and impacts at the company or sector level.…”

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“…This study was designed as a part of a triptych together with another two studies dedicated to assessing the views of company managers and local communities, respectively [37,40].…”

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Forest Company Dependencies and Impacts on Ecosystem Services: Expert Perceptions from China

Wan

D'amato

Toppinen

et al. 2017

Forests

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Global awareness of sustainability issues is growing rapidly, and business organizations are called to address wider social and environmental concerns along with economic performance. However, limited systematic knowledge exists on the interactions between forest industries and natural ecosystems. We thus investigated the role of ecosystem services in the context of China's forest sector. A qualitative research approach was used to elicit company external expert viewpoints on the topic. Our analysis focused on three themes: (1) forest company dependencies and impacts on ecosystem services; (2) business risks arising from dependencies and impacts; and (3) risk response strategies. The interviewed 20 experts identified a series of forest company dependencies and impacts (including negative and positive impacts) on several ecosystem services. The extent of dependencies and impacts is largely influenced by the business portfolio of the company. The perceived business risks include intense competition and the consequently increasing price for natural resources, which would affect forest company business plans, costs and outputs. The suggested strategies for turning risks into opportunities include outsourcing wood, changing production focus, promoting industrial upgrading and implementing regular assessments of corporate dependencies and impacts on ecosystem services. The findings of our study can guide companies' decision-making in managing forest ecosystems sustainably.

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“…This study was designed as a part of a triptych together with another two studies dedicated to assessing the views of company managers and local communities, respectively [37,40].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Forest Company Dependencies and Impacts on Ecosystem Services: Expert Perceptions from China

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Toppinen

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Forests

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“…When two parties to a potential contract, i.e., the supply side and the demand side, differ sufficiently in terms of decision strategy, it is possible that a sub-optimal allocation of resources will result due to a misalignment of incentives. Redistribution of use of a particular parcel of land, for example, may yield gains for some while also imposing costs asymmetrically [6]. Such a misalignment can also contribute to social costs [7].…”

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A Probabilistic Shortage of Private Land Opened to Hunters in Northwest Minnesota

Johnson¹,

Walker²

2018

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Outdoor recreation in Northwest Minnesota is popular year round, and many residents and visitors participate in activities such as hunting, fishing, snowmobiling, boating, and much more. Land available for hunting, however, is at a particular premium. Hunters overall do not appear to have enough land on which to hunt as they compete with both other hunters and state regulations. Some private land owners have land that they keep for their own hunting purposes, and some of that land is kept exclusively for hunting. Private landowners in NWMN have consistently demonstrated an unwillingness to open their land to outside consumptive recreational uses, such as hunting, even for a fee. This situation may leads to potential overuse of some land with respect to hunting, while other land is potentially underused, creating a potential "tragedy of the anticommons". Meanwhile, hotels and resorts in the region are engaged in the ever-growing worldwide trend of ecotourism and agritourism, though they have relatively few arrangements with private land owners. In this study, a probabilistic demand approach is used to analyze strategic interaction between land owners and hunters based on the results of three surveys conducted for the State of Minnesota and the Economic Development Administration (EDA). Mechanisms to create an outcome that aligns the utility maximization strategies of land owners and hunters are suggested.

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Ecosystem Services in the Service-Dominant Logic Framework

Caputo¹,

D'amato²,

Matthies³

2019

World Forests

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The ecosystem services concept has become the predominant lens through which researchers and decision-makers view the relationship between natural ecosystems and human well-being. Over the past decades, a number of widely-accepted classification systems, analytical methods, and a rich vocabulary around ecosystem services have evolved in the literature. Although there is widespread recognition that many ecosystem services are not exchanged in markets as commodities, many of these ecosystem service concepts and tools were built upon a theoretical foundation derived from neoclassical economics in which ecosystems are seen as passive production systems. Unfortunately, this perspective carries the potential to blind one to the complex interactions by which ecosystems, beneficiaries, and myriad other social actors interact to manage ecosystems and create human value. The service-dominant logic (SDL) framework, which views all value as being co-created by multiple actors engaged in the exchange of service, offers a valuable perspective by which the ecosystem services concept may be recast. Similarly, the ecosystem services lexicon can make important contributions to SDL by providing a means to describe and quantify the universal importance of natural ecosystems to human service systems. In this chapter, we briefly describe the ecosystem service concept and introduce the means for incorporating ecosystem services (as potential service offerings) into the SDL framework. We then use this modified framework to explore two case studies, recreation on U.S. family forests and a biodiversity market in Finland.

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Effects of industrial plantations on ecosystem services and livelihoods: Perspectives of rural communities in China

Cited by 35 publications

References 59 publications

Forest Company Dependencies and Impacts on Ecosystem Services: Expert Perceptions from China

Forest Company Dependencies and Impacts on Ecosystem Services: Expert Perceptions from China

A Probabilistic Shortage of Private Land Opened to Hunters in Northwest Minnesota

Ecosystem Services in the Service-Dominant Logic Framework

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